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OF THF FAMIl Y OF 



ARTHUR STEVENSON 



Born 1751, Died ]82] 



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DR. JOHN R. STEVENSON 



A GENEALOGICAL SKETCH 



OF THE FAMILY OF ^"'^^ 



ARTHUR STEVENSON 



Born 1751, Died 1821 



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Tn tho ,2:eneal()<iy ol Tlionias Stevenson and liis descendants 
on pa^es (55, 66 and (iT is <riven a brief sketch of Samuel Stevenson, 
of Hunterdon County, a grandson of Gov. Samuel Jenings by his 
daugliter Sarah, who was the wife of Tlio mas Steve nson, third, 
who migrated from Newtown, Long Island, to Hucks County, 
Pennsylvania. Samuel Stevenson married in Abingdon, in tiie 
latter county and state, on ;?d chiy, Stii mo., 1780, Elizabeth, 
daugiiter of Arthur Searle. Tiie births of six of his children, the 
last taking place in 1742, are recorded in the books of the Middle- 
town ?"riends' Meeting in Pennsylvania. Before this latter date 
he had removed into Bethlehem Townsiiip, Hunterdon County, 
New Jersey, where he was a voter in 1788. Here be became 
attached to the Quakertown Friends' Meeting, by a certificate 
from Middletown, dated lOth day, 7th mo., 174K, in which records 
few births are recorded and none credited to Samuel and Klizabeth 
Stevenson. 

It is not likely tiiat the six children whose birtlisare properly 
recorded as born to a man 82 years of age, with a wife as young 
as himself were all he had, for he lived many years longer. On 
August K), 17">S, Samuel Stevenson signed a diH-d for some proper- 
ty in wliicii he describes himself as the ■"oldest son and heir-at- 
law of Thomas Stevenson, deceased, late of lUu-ks County." As 
he died intestate his oldest son, Thomas, under the English law 
inh(>rited hisproperty and nothing was left to the second son. 
Samuel, born 2'Jth da.v, (i mo., 1742, nor to the sui)i)osed son, 
Arthur Stevenson, born in 17')1. These were left to seek their 
fortune in New Jersey or elsewhere. 

In tlie graveyard at Sennett, Cayuga County, New York, are 
two tombstones bearing inscriptions, one to the memory of 
"Arthur Stevenson, died Nov. 1st. 1S21. aged 7ii years" ; the other 
to "•Rachel, his wife, died .1 nly 1>. isr>2. aged 1*2 years. ."> months 
and 27 ilays." 

The traditions of Arthur Stevenson's family are that he 
mariied Rachel Yard prior to i7S"), in Hunterdon C'ounty, New 
Jersey, and lived there until about ISI"), wlien he removed to New 
Y'ork. All of his children were certainly born there. There was 
a considerable migration from that section after the Revolutionary 
war into Canada and \Vestern New York. The people had been 
harassed and impoverished by the marching and countermarching 
of the British troojjs across tliat section ol the country, and many 
sought homes in the newly «)pened country westward. 

Rachel Yard was probably the great-granddaughter of ''\Vm. 
Y'ard,* who in KiSScame to America from near Klxeter, Devimshire, 
P^nglaiui, settling in IMiiladelphia. About i7()0 he removed to 
Trenton, N. J., then known as the -'Falls of the Delaware," and 
"in 1712 bought of Malilon Stacy, two acres of land on Second, now 

*"Ne\v Jersey Archives, \'ol. XIX, p. 394. 



state Street. He also bouglit other large tracts of land, so that 
when a name was to be given to the place, it was a question 
whether it should be called Yard-town or Trent-town." In 1715 
he was keeping a public house there. From* the old county 
records we learn that the Hunterdon County Court, in 1719, was 
held at the house of William Yard, this being the first time that 
the County Court had ever convened in Trenton. At the May 
term of this Court, in 1738, William Yard applied for a license to 
keep a tavern in Trenton. The next year the newlj' created 
Board of Freeholders of Hunterdon County, met in this town and 
adjourned for one hour to the house of William Yard. His will 
is dated February 14, 17-12. and mentions several children. 

One of these, Joseph Yard, was appointed Clerk of the Board 
of Freeholders at its above named session in 1789. In 17r)4, he 
was elected a member of the 19tli New Jersey Assembly from 
Hunterdon County, and served until 17()1. He died in 1763. 

A W^illiam Yard (second or third ) is mentioned in a deposition 
of one Patrick O'Hanlon. publislied in tlie New York CJazette of 
October 2, 17r)2, in wliich he deposes, among otlier matters, that 
on tlie 2(;th day of July, pn^vious, lie had met William Yard on 
tlie road from Bristol to Trenton. 

In the Pennsylvania Gazette for Ai)ril, 1758, is an advertise- 
ment of a lottery for tiir ])nriH)st' of affording education to the 
poor. Iti begins, "We, wliose names ai'e liereunto subscribed, 
sons of some of the principal families in and around Trenton, ad- 
vertise to start a lottery to build an English and (grammar school 
on tlie S. E. corner of tlie Meeting House yard, in Ti'enton, under 
the direction of Messrs. Joseph Reed, Benjamin Yard, Alexander 
and John Chambers.'" Benjamin Yard was ajipointed a Justice 
of the Peace in 177S, and reajipointi'd in 17S4. 

^Archibald William Yard, lioni in 17.80, died in Trenton in 
ISIO, leaving nine ciiildrcii. 

('aptain 'I'hoiiias Yard was an otticersS in the 2d New Jersey 

•■SiieH's History of Hunterdon Co., N. J , page 196. 

tNew Jersey Archives, \'ul. XIX, p. 191. 

|.Wood\var(i's Mercer C^o. History, p. 732, etc. 

i/The records of the Adjutant General's office at Trenton, N. J., show 
that Thomas Yard was commissioned First Lieutenant, Second Company 
(('apt;iin Joseph Hrearley), Second Battalion, F"irst Establisliment, New 
Jeisey Continental Line, Colonel William l\La.\well, Commandino;, October 
28, 1775, for one year ; served with the Battalion in the Expedition to Canada 
and took part in the operations before Quebec, May and June. 1776 ; took part 
in the battle of Three Rivers. Canada, June 8. 1776, and with the Battalion re 
turned to New Jersey for discharge, November, 1776. Was commissioned 
Captain, Fourth Company. Second Battalion, Second Establishment. New 
Jersey Continental Line (Colonel Israel Shreeve. Commanding) November 29, 
1776, for the war; took part in the battles of Short Hills. New Jersey, June 26, 
1777; Brandywine. [Delaware, Scptemlier 11, 1777; VX'hite Horse Tavern, near 
Phihidflphia, Pinnsx h ahin, Stiite'mber 27 1777; Ciermantown, Pennsylvania, 



Continental Regiment, and served during the Revolutionary war. 
Artluir and Rachel Stevenson's children were : 
I. Edward. 
II. Thomas. 
ITT. Samuel. 

IV. William Clifton J Twins, born October 28, 1798. 
N . rienij'. \ 

VI. Rebecca, lH)rn April 1.'}, 178.5. 
VII. Elizal)etli, died unmarried. 
VIII. Sarah, married William Hall. Had a daughter married 
Hull. 

TX. Amy, married George Trimmer and lived in New 
Jersey. He was of German descent. Johannes and Matthias 
Trimmer having been naturalized by an act of the New Jersey 
Assembly, passed December 8, 1744, to enable them to hold real 
estate, without which authority any prupertj' they owned would 
have been escheated to the Crown. 

Edwako Stkvknsox. 

No. 1. Edward Stevenson, son of Arthur and Rachel 
Stevenson, removed from New Jersey to Eldredge, New York, and 
from thence to Sharon, ISIichigan He died in 1848, in (Jrass Lake, 
in tlie latter State. He married first, Mary Large,* iind second, 

La ray. Had issue : 

liy the first wife. 
X. .lohn Stevenson, married Phoebe Stafford, lived in 
Kingston, Cauachi. He was a member of the Douiinion Parlimcut. 
XI. Arthur Stevenson, wife Martha, lived in Cayuga 
County, New 'SOrk. 

XII. Samuel L. Stevenson, born May s. 1S14, mariicd 
Rebecca Young, lived in New Jt-rscy. 

Xin. Sarah Stevenson, married Porter Withey, his second 
wile. Had a (Uuigliter, Sarah Withey. 

By the second wife. 
XIV. Charles Stevenson, (iovernor of Nevada in 1889. 

X\'. Edward Stevenson. (Jovernor of Idaho in 1889. 
X\'I. ^lary I'.lizabeth Stevenson. 
X \' 1 1 . Adelaide Stevenson. 

October 4. 1777; served until December 31, 1777. There is also of record a 
Thom.TS Yard who served as Storekeeper in the Quartermaster General's De- 
partment. New Jersey Militia : also a Thomas Yard who served as Issuing 
Forage Master, Commissary-General's Department. New Jersey Militia, at 
Trenton, New Jersey, March 31, 1779; also served as Forage Master: but 
there is nothing to show that these were the same man. 

*The minutes of tiie Quakertown (Kingwood) Meeting note that "Elder 
Robert Large died on the''27th day, nth mo, 1774, having been from his 
youth up of a (luiet and peaceful spirit and a diligent attender of our religious 
meetings." 



Thomas Stevenson. 

No. 2. Tliomas Stevenson, son of Arthur and Rachel Steven- 
son, married Mercy Polhemus. He died April 21, 1881. Had issue : 
XVIII. Mary Stevenson, married Capt. Abijah Olmstead (his 
first wife.) Had issue : Myron and Theresa Olmstead. 
XIX. Polhemus Stevenson. 

XX. Arthur Stevenson. 
XXI. Theodore Stevenson. 

Samuel Stevenson. 

No. 3. Samuel Stevenson, son of Arthur and Racliel Steven- 
son, married Hannah Hall. Had issue : 

XXII. Tliomas Stevenson, died unmarried. 

XXIII. Katharine Stevenson, married John de Camp. Had 
issue : 

a. Samuel de Camp. 

b. Georgiana de Camp. 

c. Cornelia de Camp, married Phillips. 

XXIV. James Stevenson, married Mary Bidwell, of Cayuga 
County, New Yoi-k. Had issue : 

a. Rev. Halsey B. Stevenson, born Fel)ruary 9th, 1854, grad- 
uated from Williams College in 1878 ;ind from Auburn Theological 
Seminary in 1881. He married in Cornwall, New York, October 
6, 1881, Ellen Maria, daughter of James G. and Caroline Matilda 
(Clark) Roe, and brother of the novelist, E, P. Roe. 

b. George Stevenson. 

c. Henry Stevenson. 

d. Emma Stevenson, married Rev, Mr. Jones. 

e. Katharine Stevenson, married Dr. Snow. 

XXV. Joseph Stevenson, M. 1)., married Mary Bunn^ 
daughter of Judge Bunn. No issue. 

XXVI. Samuel Stevenson, nuirried Plelen Bunn, sister to 
above Mai-y. Had issue : George, Mary, Josephine and Leonard, 
deceased. 

William Clifton* Stevenson. 

No. 4. William Clifton Stevenson, son of Arthur and Rachel 
Stevenson, was born near Flemington, New Jersey. October 28, 
179;}. He married first, Maria Marcereau, second, Sophia (born 
June 19, 18();<,) daughter of Jehiel and Parthenia (Olmstead) 
Clark; died at Port Byron, New York, March 81, 1850. He was a 
captain in the State Militia. 

•■William Clifton, born in 175S, was a prominent member of the Quaker- 
town (Kingwood) Friends' Meeting, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He 
served as an elder, and one time was its clerk. He died 31st day, 3d month, 
1848, and was buried in its graveyard. His name is attached as a witness to 
the certificates of a niuiiber of Stevensons who were married in that meeting. 



Jeliiel Clark, son of Gen. Samuel Clark,* was descended from 
Natlian Clark, Sr., of Westchester County. New York, whose 
will is dated April 29, 1726. Gen. Clark's father, also named 
Jehiel, removed to Newburgh, New York, when the son was two 
years old. Samuel Clark, in the Revolutionary war, was com- 
missioned Jjieutenant at White Planis,and successively promoted 
to Major in 1771). After tiie war he became, in 1804, Brigadier- 
General of the 9th Brigade, Saratoga Militia, and Major-General 
in 1S14. He was the first Judge of tlie Saratoga County Court in 
1791, and next year was a Presidential Elector. 

His son, .lehiel Clark, was born December 17. 17H4. About 
1795 he removed to the new ''Lake Country" and built mills at 
what is now Clarksville, near Auburn, New York. He was twice 
married. First to Partiienia Olmstead, who died about 1818, and 
second to Nancy, daughter of George and Jane (Dutcher) C'asey. 

George Caseyt was born September 20, 1772, at Poughkeepsie, 
Dutchess County, New York. He became a Justice of tliis 
county and in 1807 was elected a member of the New York 
Assembly. In 1808 he removed to Auburn, and in 1818 to Oswego, 
finally returning to Auburn. He died S*^ptember Ki, 1885, at 
Detroit, Michigan, from exposure in travedllngand locatinglands 
in the latter state. 

William Clifton Stevenson by his first wife, Maria Marcereau, 
had issue : 

XX\'II. Mary Sttvcnson. married Porter Withey, his first 
wife. 

Hy second wife, Sophia Clark, liad issue : 

XXVIII. Jehiel Clark Stevenson, born at Sennett, New York, 
November 25, 1825, married Amanda Sawyer, March 24, 1847, and 
died April 24, 1872, at (Junn City, Missouri. He was Judge of the 
Cass County Court, of tliat state. He was killed by a mob. His 
children were : 

a. Francis \Villiam Stevenson, born at Port Byron. New 
York, February 19, 1848, nuirried Mamie Wade. 

b. John Peter Stevenson, born at Port Byron, New York, 
September 10, 1849. married Minnie Hind. 

c. Cornelia Soi)hia Stevenson, born at Port Byron, June IH, 
1851. 

d. Partiienia Mary Stevenson, born at Port Byron, September 
15, 1858, died at Boscabel, Wisconsin, May 6, 1858. 

e. Jehiel C. Stevenson, born at Port Byron, October 14, 1855, 
died at Boscabel, Wisconsin, April 1, 1857. 

f. Helen Arabel Stevenson, born at Boscabel, Wisconsin, 

'■History and Genealogy ofSamuel Clark, Sr., by Rev. Edgar VV. Clark, 
Pana, III.— 1892. pp. 58 and 66. 

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April 26, 1857, died May 1(5, 1858. 

g. Philip Alexander Stevenson, born at Boscabel, Wisconsin, 
September 11, 1859, married Mattie Pell Franklin, January 20, 
1878. 

h. Eugenia Louisa Stevenson, born at Boscabel, September 
27, 1868. 

i. Catharine Amanda Stevenson, ])orn December 1, 1866, mar- 
ried Homer E. Shaw, April 7, 18!i2. 

k. Robert Lee Stevenson, born January 9, 1871. at West Line, 
Cass County, Missouri, died February 11, 1871. 

XXIX. Sylvester Willard Stevenson, born May 7, 1827, at 
Clarksville, Xew York, married July 19, 1865, Esther E., (born 
November 27, 1836,) daughter of Darius Miller, of Saratoga, New 
York. 

XXX. Parthenia Jane Stevenson, born October 7, 1828, at 
Camillus, New York, married John Augustus Dodge, May 31, 
1849. He died November 28, 1881. He was Colonel of the 75th 
New York Volunteers in the civil war. 

XXXI. William Henry Stevenson, horn July 31, 1830. at 
Eldredge, New York, married Saraii A., daughter of Walter 
Smith, of Reed Creek, Wayne County, New York. He enlisted 
in his brother-in-law's regiment, tiio 75th New York Volunteers. 
He was promoted Captain April 25, 1862, and resigned September 
3, 18()2. 

XXXII. J(jlin James Stevenson, born September 8, 1834. in 
Wertz Township, Cayuga County, New York. Married Sept(nn- 
ber 13, 1859, Ella Adelia, (born November 27, 1841) a (hiughter of 
Jabez Could, of Auburn, New York. 

XXXIII. Samuel Dill Stevenson, born September 8, ls4l. in 
Wert/ Tov.nship, Cayuga County, New Y(jrk. 

XXXIW Helen Sophia Stevenson. Ijorn January .3, Ks45. in 
Wertz Township, Cayuga County, New \ork. Married Mel- 
bourne H. Olmstead, son of Capt. Abijah P. and Elizabeth (Clark) 
Olmstead. and resides at Three Oaks. Michigan. 

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No. 5. Henry Stevenson, son of Arthur and Racliel Steven- 
son, twin brother of William, born October 28, 1793, married first, 
Catharine Ijanuen. Had issue : John, Peter and Jabez Steven- 
son. Married second, Lctty Hall. No issue. 

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No. 6. Rebecca Stevenson, daughter of Artliurand Haclid 
Stevenson, horn April 13, 1785. married Mai'cii 15, 1801, Coi'uelius 
Polhemus, horn May 23. 1780, died .lanuary 27, \SVAi. Coruelius 
Polhemus died June 2(5, KSfU). 



Cornelius Pollioimis. cousin to Mercy I'ollienius Stevenson 
(No. 2), was decended from Theodorous Polhenuis, pastor of the 
Dutch Church of Long Island, who in company with Stofle 
Probasco, Cornelius Wyckolf, Hendrick Lott, Jaques Corteleou, 
Denise Tunis and Frederick Van Lieu, all Hollanders, from the 
same place, bought on November 17, ITUl, of Joiin Harrison, of 
Elizabeth, New Jersey, a tract of land on Millstone River, in 
Somerset and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey.* Somerset 
County joins Hunterdon. Major John PoUiemus, born May 2."), 
1738, who lived at Hopewill, in tlie latter county, was a distinguish- 
ed officer in the Revolutionary war and was voted by Congress 
a sword as a reward for gallant services. He married Susannali,+ 
daughter of Jolin Hart, the signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendcnci'. 

("ornelius and Rebecca (Stevenson) Polhemus had issue : 
XXXV. Kdward Polhemusi, born January H, 1802, married 
September, \&2, Nancy Parcel. Slie died November IS, 1840. 
He died in 1891. Had issue: Mary Dickinson, who married 
Tliomas Holmes ; Thomas, who married Ella Hankey, and 
Jeneatt(> Polhemus. After deatli of first wife, Edward PoUiemus 

married Cecelia . 

XXX VL Thomas PoUiemus, born October 80, 1804, died un- 
married April 21, 18;}1. 

XXXN'll. Charlotte Polhemus. born May 2i». 1807, married 
]ienjamin Wliedon. 

XXXVllI. Hacharl Polhemus, born August 1, 1809, married 
Thomas Havens, November, 184"). She died January 22, 1849. 
No issue. 

XXX IX. .lacob A. Polhemus, born October 16, 1811, married 
Jane Suydain March U?, 1835. Had issue : Isaac, Edwin, Abram, 
who married Sarah Martin, and Amelia, who married Andrew 
Rodgers. 

XL. Sarah Polhemus, born June 0, 1814, married first, 
Adam Van Tuyle in Jan., 1843, who died February 26, 1870, aged 70 
years and 10 months. Had issue : John, George, Nancy Maria, 
unmarried, died July 20, 1862, aged IS; Elizabetli Irene, unmarried, 
died Aug. 21, 1863, aged 18; and Willard, who married Alta Silvers 
and has one child, Percy Van Tuyle. 

Sarah Polhemus married second. Rev. William Wastell. No 
issue. 

XLI. Maria Louisa I'olhemus, born August 4. 1817, 

••New Jersey Archives, Vol. XXI, page 331. 

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married William Bigelow, February, ISHG. 

XLII. Hester Polhemiis, ])urn June 20, 1824, died April 
5, 1826. 

XLllI. Arthur Pulhemus, born October 19, 1821, married 
first, Jane Hill in November, 1845. She died September 2, 185U, 
leaving one daughter, Rosaltlie, born Dec. 5, 184H. Married 
second, Louisa Dow. 

Samuel L. Stkvenson. 
No. 12. Samuel L. Stevenson, born May 8, 1814, married 
Rebecca Young. He lived in New Jersey. Had issue : 

a. Mary Stevenson, married Hugh Series. 

b. Sarah Stevenson, married John M. E. Shinier. 

c. Susan A. Stevenson, miirried S. R. Bush, resides at Easton, 
Pa. 

d. Porter Witliey Stevenson, unmarried. 

e. Samuel Skinner Stevenson, married INIary . 

f. Mary Emma Stevenson, marricnl Garner Clyne. 

g. Elizabeth Stevenson, married Ray Sherrer. 
h. Isabella Stevenson, married Jesse Carter. 

JoHX Jamks Stevkxsox. 

No. 82. John James Stevenson, son of William Clifton and 
Sophia Stevenson, was born September 8, 1884, in Wertz Town- 
ship, Cayuga County. New York, married September 13, 18r)l», 
Ella Adelia (born November 27, 1841), daughter of Jabez and 
Susan Ann Could, of Auburn. Had issue : 

XLIV. William Jabez Stevenson, born July 25, 1800, at 
Auburn, New Y'ork. 

XLV. Emma Alice Stevenson, born January 10, 18(14, 
at Auburn, married f]lkin Cliandler, November 2(», ISUO. 

XLVI. Susie Adelia Stevenson, born Ai)ril 15, 18(iO, at 
Tuscola, Jllinois. 

XLVIl. Frederick Clark Stevenson, born May 20, IStW, at 

Wooster, Ohio. 

XLVIII. Mary Katharine Stevenson, born September 27, 
187.8, at Wooster, Ohio. 

XEIX. Eliza Cornelia Stevenson, l)()rn April 28, 1876, at 
Tuscola, Illinois. 

L. FloHMice Edith Stevenson, born June 28, 1880, at 
Tuscola, Illinois. 

CHAKT>0TT?: POLHEMT^S. 

No. 87. Charlotte Polhemus, daughter of Cornelius and 
Rebecca (Stevenson) Polliemus, born ]\Iay 2!), 1807, married Feb- 
ruary, 182J», Benjamin Wliedon, born August 15, 1807, in Camillus, 



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New York. He was the son of Anii-ustus and Maiy (Brown) 
Whedon, who was descended from Thomas Whedon, of Bucking- 
hamshire, England, who emigrated to New Haven, Conneticut, 
and took the Oath of Fidelity in 1057. Benjamin Whedon was 
one of the nioneer emigrants to the State of Micliigan. He died 
May 18, 1876. His wife, Charlotte, died May 1, 1878. Had issue : 
U. Mary Augusta Whedon, born .July 19, 1881, in Camillas, 
New York, married fii-st, Barnes Loring, of Michigan. Had issue : 

a. P^veritt Blood Loring, born January, 1854, in Scio, Michigan, 

married Editli . His son, Benjamin Whedon Loring, was 

adopted by his Uncle Benjamin. 

1). Benjamin Whedon Ijoriiig, born in 185(), in Scio, Michigan, 
married Ella Wriglit and had one son. (Iccfascd. Hi- lives in 
Lyndon, Washington. 

Mary Augusta Whedon married second, (ieorge W. Waite, t)f 
Michigan. Had issue : 

c. George Robert Waite, M. 1)., married in llXMj, in Chicago, 
Lelia Frazee and has one child, Gracie, born in H)()2. Dr. Waite 
practices his profession in Mihin, Kansas. 

LIT. Eliza Maria Whedon, born May 4, 1S84, married May 1, 
1858, Jehiel, (J)orn A;)ril 14. 1882) son of .lehiel and Nancy (Casey) 
Clark, in Bridgewater Townshij), Washtenaw County, Michigan. 
Jehiel Clark died August 25, 1899, in \Vooster, Ohio. 

Jehiel Clark Avas tlie son of Jeliid and Nancy (Casey) Clark, 
wliose ancestry is given in No. 4. He was educated in the 
academies of Aurora and Jonesville, New York, and studied hiw 
in the office of (Tcorge I\ath])one, of Auburn, l>ut withdrew before 
being admitted to the Bar, to go into Ijusiness. At tlieconunence- 
ment of the civil war he enlisted in Company B, 75th Regiment, 
New York Volunteers, commanded by his nepliew. Col. John A. 
Dodge. He was pi'omoted to be first lieutenant and served in the 
campaign in Louisiana and Florida. He was mustered out July 
10, 1868, at Donaldsville, La., as a captain, and entered into busi- 
ness at Massillon and Wooster, Ohio. Jehiel Clark was a c '-eful 
genealogist and had colh-ctcd and preserved a valual)le record of 
his family, from which much of this history is cojjied. Had issue : 

a. Mary E. Clark, born .June 2, 1854, married August 18, 1876, 
in St. James Church, Wooster, Ohio, Jacob Robert, born Sept. 12, 
1852, eldest son of Hon. John Zimmerman, who represented his 
district in the Ohio Legislature. To the genealogical talent of 
her fatlier, Mrs. Zimmerman added her own zeal and ability, and 
to her the author of this paper acknowledges his great indebted- 
ness. Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman have one son, John Clark 
Zimmerman, born April 6, 1878. 

b. Frances Jane Clark, born November 21, 1855, near Clinton, 
Michigan. man-iiHl Noveml)er 8, 1881, in Wooster, Ohio, Gustavus 



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Percy, son of CliMiies and Caroline (Harix-r) English, of Phlla- 
(U'lphia, Pennsylvania. Their only child is Albert Averill 
English, ))orn Sepj-eniber 22, 1SH2. 

c. John Whcdon Clark, horn May 15, 1878, at Wooster, Ohio, 
married in Cliicago, June fi, 1900, Elizabeth Janet Cameron. He 
graduated in the law department of the University of Michigan 
at Ann Arbor and practices law in Chicago. 

LI II. Robert Alvin Wliedon, M. I)., born May (i, 18.89, in 
Bridgewater, Michigan, mai-ried May, 1H66, in Clinton, same 
state, Jane Leonard Clark. He graduated in 1868 from the Medical 
Department of University of Michigan. He was Assistant Sur- 
o-eon in the Naw for two vears during the civil war. He died 
May 18, 187(i. Had issue : Frank Clark Whedon, who died young, 
and James Clark AYhedon, born August 31, 1874, in Teeumseh, 
Michigan, a practicing lawyer in Philadelphia. 

LIV. Rachel EHizabnth Whedon, died February 8, 18-4o, in 
ht^r second year. 

LV. (ieorge Henry Wliedon, died August 9, 1847. in his 
first year. 

MaKIA Lor ISA l^OT.HKMUS. 

No. 41. Maria Ijouisa Polhemus, daughter of Edward and 
Nancy Polhemus, was born August 14, 1817, married William 
Bigelow, February, 188B. Had issue : 

a. Destilina Bigelow, born 1887, died 1841. 

b. Sarah M. Bigelow, born 1840, married Charles B. Statler 
in 1862. Had issue : George B., born 1862 ; (Trant T., born 18(>4, 
and Frank H., born 1878. 

c. Nelson Bigelow, born 1848, killed in 1862 in the civil war. 

d. Arthur P. Bigelow, born 1846, married Jane Trumbull in 
April 1872. Had issue : Hattie May, born 1876, and Ray Bigelow, 
born in 1879. 

e. Melissa B. Bigelow, born 1849, marrietl July, 1868, Ansel 
Belching. She died in 1871, leaving one child, Etta, who died the 
same year. 

r. Lottie M. liigclow. born in \H'-,('k 



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